Blanchot was a French philosopher whose obscure writing style and hidden life made him little known even after his death. The Times referred to him as the most influential but least read French writer after the war, and his texts made groundbreaking contributions to philosophical and literary experiments. Auster was influenced by Brown Shaw and believed that literature is a way of practicing philosophical thinking, and language is the entry point for understanding the world. Blanchard believed that literature begins with itself becoming a problem, and the essence of language is silence, absence, and emptiness. Literature displays a negative power when facing emptiness, and infinite possibilities arise from emptiness. Auster's "New York Trilogy" is a novelization practice of Brown Shaw's linguistic philosophy, exploring how literature becomes possible through anti detective novel forms and nested narrative structures. Three stories reflect on literature from three dimensions: language, author, and work. The conclusion drawn is that literature only reveals its true colors when language is silent, the author dissolves, and the work whispers.

Silent language

The New York Trilogy explores the limitations of traditional Western language perspectives through the shell of its detective stories. Russell pointed out that the ultimate reference that detectives seek does not exist, while Oster and Blanchard believed that the essence of literature is silence. Brown Shaw closely links literature with language, believing that silence and emptiness are the core of literature. In "The Glass City," Old Stillman attempts to reconnect things and words through language, but ultimately discovers that the original state of language is not its destiny. He attempted to create an ultimate language, but overlooked the literary nature of language, which is the essential language described by Malam. It manifests itself through silence and transcends concrete reference.

Writing in the dark night, whispering works

Brown Shaw's literary perspective in the New York Trilogy delves into the relationship between the author and the work through his novels "The Phantom" and "The Locked Room". Ghost "unfolds in a minimalist style, revealing through the stories of Mr. Blue and Mr. Black how the writer blends into the dark night and proves their existence through writing. The second type of night mentioned by Blanchard in "Literary Space", which is the manifestation of darkness itself, provides a background for the pure experience of literature. Mr. Blue's enclosed room became a metaphor for the dark night, as he peered into Mr. Black's life through a telescope, only to find himself imprisoned in his writing.